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Welcome & Announcements: Daniel
Fellowship Sunday:
After service today, there will be a fellowship dinner in the basement.
Please come, even if you did not get a chance to RSVP.
Small Groups:
This coming Thursday (January 20th @ 6:30 pm), we will be meeting at Daniel & Lynette's new house.
Content: We will be watching a series called, Gentle & Lowly.
Sunday School:
We will not be having Sunday school this week, but will continue next week.
Nine Marks of a Healthy Church - Chapter 1
What is a Healthy Church? - Chapter 5
There will be a brief volunteer training time before Sunday School this week.
John Hutcherson from Frontline Mission will be with us on February 13th.
Call to Worship in Song:
Across The Lands
How Deep The Father’s Love For Us
Scripture Reading: Someone Needed
Old Testament Text: Psalm 133
New Testament Text: Ephesians 2:11-22
Offering & Pastoral Prayer: Daniel
Since I mentioned last week about the ordinance in the state of Indiana, I will mention it again today.
If enacted, it would criminalize faith-based counseling to minors on issues related to human sexuality with the threat of a fine from the police of $1000 per day.
While we do not condone Conversion Therapy, 31-21’s definition of “Conversion Therapy” casts such a wide net that it knowingly or unknowingly undermines:
personal liberty (people should have the right to select the counselor of their choice),
parental rights (parents must be the ones who choose their child’s counselor),
religious liberty / the separation of church and state (faith-based counselors must have the freedom to counsel people based on their deeply held religious convictions without government harassment or discrimination).
The second reading of Ordinance is scheduled for Feb. 7 at 6:30 p.m.
Adoration
Confession
Thanksgiving
Supplication
Prayer
Last week we discussed the significance of the historical reliability of the CORE of our faith.
We answered the question, where does a Christian’s authority reside?
We talked about the foundation of our faith being upon the shoulders of the apostles and prophets.
C. Crucified
O. Obedience
R. Resurrection
E. Eyewitnesses
Some implications of this being the boldness which we may possess as we discuss with non-believers.
We also talked about the objective nature which our faith rests upon.
Namely how we don’t debate with subjective experience, rather we stand upon objective reality.
What is the reason for the wars we see on the news?
The way you answer that question will reveal what you believe about humanity as a whole.
Is it a lack of compassion from mankind?
Is it a lack of the right laws and ordinances in the land?
Or let me ask this, what would fix all of these problems?
This week we turn our attention to ask the question....
What does this CORE produce in believers?
Another way to ask this would be, what is the experience of a Christian?
The Apostolic band that we talked about last week is anxious to declare to these believers.
They’re not just sharing for any reasons.
It is a purposeful sharing.
A proclaiming with intentions for deeper fellowship.
They do not wish to keep this message to themselves.
They wish that YOU and I would actually join them in this experiencing of fellowship.
Again, John is in no way trying to be secretive or withhold information from these believers.
All that he has seen and heard and touched he has proclaimed to them.
Then he gives the purpose for this proclamation for this seeing and hearing and touching.
FELLOWSHIP
What is fellowship?
κοινωνία
close association involving mutual interests and sharing, association, communion, fellowship, close relationship
The word is about a close relationship.
A sharing of our lives with another.
The word, “community” at its root level is actually based off of this word.
It is to share with one another at the deepest level.
It is the interaction with a group of people around mutual interests and sharing.
Now this isn’t fellowship around baseball or football…
It is a like mindedness around this message and person that John has already spoken of.
At a foundation level, it is likeness with one-another.
Sometimes it is helpful to see what a word means negatively to understand it fully.
Paul talks about this kind of fellowship in 2 Corinthians 6....
We always want to make that passage only about marriage but if you look closely it actually has more to do with false teaching.
Listen to the stark contrast that Paul uses, light and darkness.
He says that what fellowship could the light have with darkness?
What do the two have in common?
The answer is NOTHING!
They don’t have COMMONALITY any longer.
Paul is saying that to the heart that has been made alive to the things of God, he has no commonality with someone who is still dead in their sins.
For John, he is saying that all that he has seen and touched and heard, he is proclaiming that there may be a LIKENESS between them.
Communion about the CORE
Think about this, here is the old Apostle John.
Likely at this point the last surviving disciple.
And he says that all of this….
Persecution.
Rejection from the community.
Martyrdom
All that they have experienced....
He experienced so that these communities coming after them would have fellowship.
A likeness between them.
A likeness of mind.
A likeness of character.
A likeness of relationship.
There are only two axioms by which we can have fellowship.
Horizontal Communion
Who do we find fellowship with?
From this text, we see three layers of horizontal fellowship....
1 John 1:3 (ESV)
3 that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us;
The first layer is the....
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